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Nice hack! I have seen people use aluminium ladders instead of this wooden frame. You could also mount the outside wheels on the inside of the frame, so the overall footprint is smaller. And for smooth movement, you can use chain of large rubber bands, it’s elasticity smooths the motion. You can also ues the rubber band trip on the handle of tripods, when you want to make a smooth pan. Nice hack! Love this site!

Hi folks,because of constant speed: Connect rope to dolly. That rope fix onto an axle that is turned by an electric motor. The motor is ficed at one end of your track. The motor runs in adjustable constant speed and winds the rope up. To smooth it a bit more put a wooden stick to the board in the way that it slides on the wood of ivar. This way it works like a break which makes the moving more controled. For example you could use one of these 12V car wind some off road have on their front bumper.(sorry about my bad english)Have fun!

I just built a version of your dolly. I made it with 8 wheels instead of 12 (they came in packages of 8 for $45 each – a bit too expensive for this project).

The L brackets gave me some trouble initially as I could not find ones even close to the ones you used. I ended up using L brackets with four slightly offset holes each. They fit together so that the edges overlap, but the important bits (that attached to the board and the bottom wheel) are square if that makes any sense.

The lack of holes meant that I needed to drill holes through the L brackets for the wheel axles to go through, but I was fortunate enough to have access to a drill press and titanium bits.

Excellent effort, and easy to figure out – for the Aussies reading about this, Bunnings has everything except the skateboard wheels and bearings, which I got from Blindside (at Chadstone) – I chose skateboard over rollerblade because they seemed to have a softer compound and a wider contact spot (smooooooth….). And I only have 8 wheels total, not 12, works fine!!

Also possible to join more than one Ivar side – I ran 2x sides at 2.2m each, works well without any bump at the join!

This looks great, thanks for sharing. I’m wondering, could this work with only 8 wheels and a square wood panel? Is there a reason (weight, surface area etc.) why you made it long and put it on six set of wheels instead of four?

Thanks!For the bearings, I found a metal plate with a hole that is exactly the same diameter than the bolt that is used to lock up the bearing. I just added 3 metal rings before the nut to space the wheel from the plate.For the lens, it’s the basic Canon EF-S 18-135mm IS lens from the 7D kit.

It’s not noisy at all, actually you can’t hear it even with the internal mic of the camera if you’re shooting outside. And, no, I wanted this version of the dolly to be compact, so there’s not enough space for an operator, it will be for the next version

Thanks for the feedbacks!Most of time the dolly is moved manually. Another technique is to put the Ivar ladder on two trestles (one a little lower than the other) and let the dolly slide slowly along the ladder.And thanks Eddie for the tip! I should find some plastic cover for the brackets.

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